my 4 month old baby has a cold.
Is there anything apart from giving her paracetamol i can do for her she has a very bunged up nose.

Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:51 pm

SueT66

Joined: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:53 amPosts: 0

there are cold syrups on the market four months can take, go to your local Boots and ask the pharmacist for their advice

Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:39 pm

snowystars

Joined: Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:15 pmPosts: 0Location: lowestoft/suffolk

Hi ya

Billy had a terrible cold from about a week old and we were at the hosp with him when he was just 12days old as such a problem feeding because of the bunged up nose.

He had saline nose drops prescribed (but you can boy them in chemists quite cheaply), and Id never now not have any. My medicine cabinet is well stocked up on them. Absolutely brill, total godsend. You just literally squirt a drop up each nostril and wait for the fun.....

within about an hour to so we found the sneezing started and all the bunged up effect was clearing, out came the green and yellow snot (sorry bit gross sounding), but they were superb, cannot praise them highly enough, and as cleared his nose out he then was able to suck and breathe easier.

Might be worth trying.

Jo xx

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Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:42 am

excited mum to be

ED newbie

Joined: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:52 pmPosts: 4

thanks very much for your help they do sound great i will get them today as the cold has got worse.

In boots you can also get nose unblockers, can't remember what the technical name is, i'm afraid

I'll see if i can find them on the website and post the link.

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Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:15 am

Flisscity

Joined: Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:15 amPosts: 0Location: Liverpool

Can you get those rubber squishy sucker things that they use when the baby is born to unblock their airway. That would be brilliant, just suck the snot right out of their head

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Fri May 12, 2006 12:40 pm

snowystars

Joined: Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:15 pmPosts: 0Location: lowestoft/suffolk

Hi

Theyre called nasal aspirators and we got one for Billy from boots, its like plastic blub thingy and you hold it under the nostril and gently squeeze it, we found it to be rubbish!! Total waste of money, and we're sticking with the nasal drops, 3 weeks to date of yet again another cough cold and sore throat and thats all thats helping him.